The Federal Reserve today acted boldly, announcing the continuation of historically low interest rates and a $40 Billion a month plan to buy mortgage bonds. As the economy struggles to recover can this bold move work to right the economy?

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting its biggest one-day decline since December 2008 on Thursday in lock-step with global market sell-offs, a new poll demonstrated the vast disapproval Americans have for their legislators.

New York -
The other half of America’s Dire-namic Duo, the self-fornicating chicken anus farm formerly known as Wall Street, has done yet another series of slapstick manoeuvres. The Dow dropped over 4% as global markets followed.

In an opinion piece published earlier today in the National Post (and earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal), Dow Jones said Predator drones make war "more humane" because they reduce the chances of "collateral damage."

The owners of Dow Jones, the Bancroft family, are still divided on the bid, and Murdoch has already said he'd walk if the required level of approval from the Bancrofts wasn't reached. That looks very unlikely.

Rupert Murdoch isn’t going to raise his offer, and the not very subtle hints about that have made no impression. The current state of the takeover is an equally unsubtle third party remark that he’ll just walk if the offer isn't accepted.

It’s official. The Dow Jones board voted for acceptance of the offer, and four of the board are Bancroft family members. However, two of them didn’t take part in the vote. The family may yet block the takeover, despite the board’s acceptance.

After weeks of talk between Dow, News Corp and potential alternative buyers, something is happening. It boils down to the fact that while Dow Jones may have made agreements with News Corp, the controlling stockholders, the Bancroft family, haven’t.

A trench is being dug around the Dow Jones mulberry bush as the new combination of Burkle and Greenspan discuss alternative options to the News Corp buyout. As usual in this takeover, no specifics have leaked out, but a lot of rumors are doing nicely.

News Corp has finally released a little information regarding the big issue in the takeover attempt. This is the first bit of information from them about actual dealings in the matter, and “sparse” would describe it.

The Wall Street Journal is arguably one of the most respected news outlets on the planet. News Corp is definitely one of the more fearsome predators in mass media. Rupert Murdoch has had more personal vilification than just about any corporate executive.

Dow Jones has launched a video channel accessible across Barron's Online, MarketWatch.com and the Wall Street Journal Online. It just goes to show how the Web has started to penetrate deeper and deeper into our lives as individuals as well as a community.

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks closed Monday with mixed results, as investors tried to pick up some bargains after recent steep losses in the market.
The Dow Jones Industrial average ended the day nearly unchanged, down three-tenths of a point at 9,606 The...

NEW YORK - March 13 - The Dow Jones industrial average slipped more than four-hundred points. The Nasdaq composite index went below 2000 yesterday for the first time in 27 months.
The speed of the selloff stunned even investors who have become accu...